I realize that forcing someone to stay in office against their will would probably qualify as indentured servitude, but I think legislators should be required to sign a contract at the beginning of every term promising to serve out their full term unless they die or are removed or recalled from office. If they want to resign before their term is up because they were elected to another office or resigned to become a judge or a lobbyist or something, they should be required to "buy out" the remainder of their term by paying the state/federal government the amount of salary they would have received for the remainder of their term.
Because the public would obviously benefit from legislators who have an explicit disinterest in performing their job.
(I initially wrote that in jest, but come to think about it, there might be merit in the idea of having legislators who hate their job. A lottery system of representation would certainly be preferable to representative democracy in the sense we know it in a few ways.)
